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anesthetic: nested sampling visualisation

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-05-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Authors: Will Handley
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Abstract

anesthetic is a Python package for processing nested sampling runs, and will be useful for any scientist or statistician who uses nested sampling software. anesthetic unifies many existing tools and techniques in an extensible framework that is intuitive for users familiar with the standard Python packages, namely NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and pandas.

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scientific software and data analysis tools computational physics software

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@article{arxiv.1905.04768,
  title  = {anesthetic: nested sampling visualisation},
  author = {Will Handley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04768},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 1 Figure

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